An unusual entry for the Mostly Mozart Festival, the piece is as much about mixed-forms spectacle as it is about love's travails.
Characteristic whitish to yellowish marks usually encircle the eyes partially or completely to form "spectacles," often extending down the neck and to the chest.
Mr. Weiner's creative team includes figures who work at the intersection of theater, club culture and other forms of spectacle.
Numerous forms of spectacle, such as dramatic and nondramatic pageants, the circus, son et lumière, and gymnastic presentations, are closely allied with theatre and indeed are considered by some classifications to be theatrical.
Nevertheless, the resemblance between all three are unmistakable and Trump had been associated with all these forms of spectacle even before he kick-started his successful campaign.
But, as Richard Ellmann points out in his expansive and sympathetic 1984 biography, Wilde's interest in the Catholic Church — with its robes, its incense, and its ritual of taking in the body of Christ in wafer form — was, for the playwright-to-be, an early manifestation of a passionate curiosity about form and spectacle.
He obtained a patent for a new form of spectacle lens (1804), and he patented the camera lucida (1806) and published a book on its design (1807).
Dancing, singing and brandishing sticks, in helmets and brightly coloured overalls, they form a spectacle greater than the sum of its parts.
When it comes to installation art, he is prone to an efficient form of spectacle: he simply has very large holes cut or dug in the walls or floors of galleries, museums and the occasional art fair booth, usually to startlingly beautiful effect.
It's a visual treat, too – the film's framing of southern Germany's cornfields, lakes and winding country roads demonstrates that an explosion isn't the only form of spectacle, and its setting provides as much stylistic input into the film as, say, Michael Mann's dark and shimmering vision of LA in Heat.
